Reviews: Shunn, William

The Accidental Terrorist —
William Shunn

I’ve
read a lot of SF, but there’s a heck of a lot of it. More than I
could read in my lifetime. That’s why this is the first book by
William Shunn I’ve ever read, even though he has been publishing
for decades and has been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula1.
But … this book is not SF; it is autobiography.

Shunn
has done a lot of interesting things. He was part of the team that
wrote the venerable word-processing program, Wordperfect, which many
of us still feel was better than the Word that replaced it as the
business standard. He was also something of a celebrity in Canada in
the mid-1980s.

William
Shunn was the earnest young Mormon missionary whose bomb threat to
Flight 789 made newspaper headlines all across Canada.